Mads Frederik Hovmand,

Current affiliation: UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN, Biological Institute,

Universitetsparken 15, 2100 Copenhagen.                                         Telephone: +45 - 20 72 06 87. E-mail: [email protected]

Position and present activities: Project Manager, Senior Scientist

• Heavy metal inventories for the Copenhagen Municipalities
• Working on: Input of plant nutrients and heavy metals to forest soils
• Chemical analyses biomass and bio ash from power plants

Employments:

2018-2023: Project-responsible on: "BARC-project" Wood ash back to Plantations on sandy soils.

2013-2017: WP-responsible in “ASHBACK”-project (wood-ash back to the forest)    Biological Institute, University of Copenhagen 

2011-2013: Self-employed consultant, affiliated to University of Copenhagen and    Aarhus University

2005-2010: Research scientist, Biological Institute, University of Copenhagen      

2004-2005: Self-employed consultant

1983-2003: National Environmental Research Institute as Project Manager on major monitoring and research projects:

1985-2002:  Input of acid and plant nutrients to Danish forests, a part of the ICP-   Forest-EU-Level II intensive monitoring network, Project Manager on atmospheric input to forests.

1988-1998 “Nitrogen input to land and sea” Danish national action plan for the environment”, Project Manager on atmospheric input to land and Sea.

1978-1982: Technical University of Denmark. Research scientist on the project    “Heavy metal input to agricultural soils and crops

Education:

University of Copenhagen, M.S. (Biology), PhD. (Ecology) 1978

Research interests:

Research interests to quantify the input of plant nutrition’s (N, Ca, K, Mg and P) as well as trace elements (including heavy metals) to the forest ecosystems.

Element input to forests comes from atmospheric deposition (being the main in flux during the period 1950-1990), from sludge and manure and recently from recycling of wood ash from energy production.

Worked with chemical analyses of soil, biomass, water, aerosols, fuel and ash for more than 35 years.